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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Fantastic Dutch stamp: Golden Earring

This stamp just arrived in my mailbox today, riding on a Postcrossing postcard from the Netherlands. I've never seen this stamp before, and I don't even know who Golden Earring/Moontan is, other than that they seem to be a music group. But WOW, what a stamp image! That's quite a headdress the nearly-naked lady is wearing. Are those ostrich feathers on her head?

...just a brief break in my crazy February to marvel at the wonderful world of postage stamps...

The stamp was the first one in a row about Dutch popartists. It actually features a new thing. With a special pen and app for it you can make it play the song Radar Love! The stamp itself is sold in sheets of ten. 250.000 stamps are made. The lady is a photo model and posed for the Moontan album cover (Dutch release 1973, usa censored release 1974!) Greetings, Casper Roos